Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 However , impediments to women 's lives will not disappear as quickly as Mrs Thatcher did .
2 Rosen did not speak right away so Delia Sutherland added , ‘ Well , has he ?
3 An old favourite it is sometimes available , if not seen as often as Corydoras aneus and Corydoras paleatus .
4 It does not grow as fast as N. indicum , but the slender stalks produce more aerial leaves than the larger species .
5 He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad .
6 They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications .
7 Matey might not work so hard as McAllister did , or perform such menial tasks , like scrubbing the kitchen floor and whitening the front doorstep — which was next on McAllister 's list of duties — but she did her share and was never idle , even in her spare time — hence her membership of the ladies ' sewing circle and her encouragement of her housemaid , McAllister , to accompany her to it .
8 Although Clwyd was not hit as badly as Gwynedd , there was widespread flooding , including pensioners ' flats in Cae Brachty , Mold .
9 The majority of the National Executive did not go as far as Marchbanks but warned several of the leading participants in the Petition campaign that disciplinary action would be taken against them ( as against Cripps ) if they continued in their support for it .
10 Most recent historians would agree that the Hammonds were much too reluctant to accept that there was even serious talk of revolution , although the majority do not go so far as Thompson in their assessment of the seriousness of the threat .
11 Systems will simply not change as easily as Shapland and Hobbs seem to hope ; for police society is extremely conservative and masculine in outlook , and has long reflected the low esteem women are given in wider society , as I will describe in more detail in Chapter 4 .
12 The relatively frequent mis-matches between speakers ' " Patois " and the presumed model ( JC ) indicate that for those speakers , " Patois " does not come as naturally as LE .
13 That day , by way of the radio popolo the news of the rastrellamento spread like wildfire , but it had not spread as far as Eric 's farm .
14 Molly did n't remind her that they must n't arrive too early because S. Kettering had told them not to .
15 And the Milton Keynes-based Motor Insurers ' Bureau , which is responsible for compensation when a driver 's uninsured , says that it wo n't pay up either because Gooch was n't wholly to blame .
16 Well we ca n't go out tomorrow cos Amy 's got a party .
17 I did n't go out again until Ken stormed in and said he 'd found Nicola . ’
18 You do n't go as far as Church Hill !
19 Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then .
20 ‘ The Atlantic does n't go as far as Tennessee , ’ she said .
21 The bill would be around £75 but , as Mary had said , the van would n't get as far as Calais in its present state .
22 But I did n't get very near before Mr Stokill put his hand on my shoulder .
23 I hope she does n't retire just yet because Wimbledon and Eastbourne just would n't be the same .
24 The search did n't extend very far because Elsie never went more than two or three miles from home .
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